https://www.visualcinnamon.com/tags/fermi-paradox/Recent content in Fermi Paradox on Visual CinnamonHugoen-usThu, 13 Aug 2026 15:01:54 +0200https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-fermi-paradox/Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-fermi-paradox/<p>One of the main articles in the January 2020 edition of the Scientific American was about <strong>a new simulation that had been performed to address the Fermi Paradox</strong> (if there are aliens, why haven&rsquo;t we met). Scientific American was looking for a <strong>full spread visualization</strong> to accompany the article. After reading though the scientific paper and draft of the Scientific American article, I proposed to <strong>visualize the final state of the simulation</strong>, showing a tiny cube of space. I felt this would reveal the main insight best to a more general audience; that it&rsquo;s perfectly possible for our Milky Way to be settled by alien civilizations, but that our Earth happens to be in a local void, currently unreachable.</p>